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June 2007 18 6 Issue of SCMagazine

Editorial

This month's special test offerings

Welcome to our Malware Special, in which our product reviews cover solutions that can help you address one of the granddaddies of internet security threats. ...

2 minutes on

The cost of e-gold falling

If you felt the floor shake after the feds helped indict the owners of e-gold on money laundering charges, it might be attributable to an ...

Opinion

Measures, metrics and management

Why is it that two restaurateurs can take the same basic ingredients, but create dishes that invoke such opposing reactions from customers: one dish bland ...

Secure the whole business

A natural way of achieving security is to focus on the business basics: identifying your customers; ensuring that they can do everything they need to ...

CSO's desk

Strengthen the PCI Data Security Standard

Recently, there has been a lot of focus in the financial, security and merchant world on a few high-profile breaches of data security. The TJX ...

Letters

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Update

Company news

Exploit Prevention Labs, a web security firm, has promoted Chris Weltzien to president. He previously served as chief operating officer since the company was founded ...

Debate

Is endpoint security a more complete solution for corporations than NAC?

News briefs

Fed breach lawA federal ID theft task force backed a breach notification law on government use of personal information. The President's Identity Task Force, co-chaired ...

Me and my job

How do you explain your job to non-technical people?I'd say that I'm the person where the "buck stops here." My semi-official role is to be ...

Features

Product section: Anti-malware management, anti-spyware and anti-virus

To the perhaps clichéd title of this months column, we can add bots, root kits, spyware and other assorted beasties that now crawl the internet. ...

How IT departments are securing instant messaging

Once considered a peripheral communication tool used primarily by only some workers, instant messaging (IM) is now feared by many as a security hazard. For ...

Google Apps has its advantages, but is it secure?

Can Google guarantee safe, secure online word processing and spreadsheet collaboration applications to enterprises? While only time will tell, the short answer appears to be ...

Educating the masses for IT security

Never mind the Fourth of July, New Year's Eve or even his birthday. The occasion George Dolicker celebrated most merrily last year was International Computer ...

Product Reviews

Interscan Gateway Appliance

This product has many useful features and protection capabilities. Features include anti-virus scanning for protocols such as SMTP, HTTP, FTP and POP3.

Client Security 7

F-Secure Client Security 7 hosts several features that make the battle against harmful malware coming into a network, or already at rest inside, a lot ...

SME Security 3.1

Webroot’s SME Security is a comprehensive malware management tool. This product provides protection against a variety of problems, such as viruses, spyware, trojans, rootkits and ...

WebMarshal 2006

Marshal’s WebMarshal product is an all-inclusive web content filter and anti-malware product.

Blink Professional 3.0

Blink Professional is basically an endpoint security product with some extra protection. This product features anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-phishing protection.

AVG Anti-Malware

There are three main features in the Network Edition of this product. First is the anti-virus, which protects the environment from worms, viruses and trojans. ...

Security Suite

The LANDesk Security Suite is a module of a much larger, fully inclusive security management tool for networks. The LANDesk Management Suite drives the boat, ...

NOD32

This product contains several pieces that integrate very well. When combined, it covers protection from viruses, worms, spyware and other malicious attacks.

AntiThreat

BixFix AntiThreat is a module of the powerful BigFix platform. The platform can manage a multitude of areas in the environment, such as policy reinforcement ...

Enterprise Management

Savant takes a completely different view of the problem of malware. This product looks at changes in an application’s fingerprint that may indicate that the ...

Proventia Desktop

Proventia Desktop focuses on two areas, the first being protection from spyware. This product analyzes network downloads to stop the spread of new spyware, and ...

Open Space Security

The Kaspersky Open Space Security suite has many of the features necessary for good network protection. The suite includes protection on both the email and ...

Spyrus Hydra Privacy Card Series II

You don't need a 100-headed monster to control sensitive data that needs to be transported from the computer. You just need one Hydra PC. In ...

Last Word

Are your IT security and physical security teams working well together?

Years ago, a friend's e-commerce company took a major hit when customer credit card information was stolen from the company database. Everyone initially assumed it ...